“Ghost” kubernetes pod stuck in terminating

Question

The situation

I have a kubernetes pod stuck in \"Terminating\" state that resists pod deletions

NAME                             READY STATUS       RES         


        

Answer 1

In my case nothing worked, no logs, no delete, absolutely nothing. I had to restart all the nodes, then the situation cleared up, no more Terminating pods.

Answer 2

Try removing the finalizers from the pod:

kubectl patch pod funny-turtle-myservice-xxx-yyy -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}'

Answer 3

In my case, the solution proposed by the accepted answer did not work, it kept stuck in "Terminating" status. What did the trick for me was:

kubectl delete pods <pod> --grace-period=0 --force